Four Lancaster County farms are among 27 farms in 13 counties that will be preserved with a $6.9 million investment by local governments, nonprofits and the Pennsylvania Farmland Preservation Program.<\/p>\n
State Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced the funding Thursday in Harrisburg.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania leads the nation in preserved farmland, according to the state Department of Agriculture. Since 1988, the state has protected 6,648 farms and 661,035 acres in 58 counties from future development, investing nearly $1.84 billion in state, county and local funds.<\/p>\n
According to local agriculture officials, Lancaster County leads the state in farmland preservation. Over the past four decades, county government and partner organizations have preserved more than 1,600 local farms encompassing 124,000 acres.<\/p>\n
Per Thursday\u2019s announcement, about 117 acres in western and southern Lancaster County will remain dedicated to agriculture in perpetuity after officials purchased the development rights from their owners.<\/p>\n
Most of the $382,285 investment came from Lancaster County government ($219,131), with the rest covered by the state ($96,055), Manor Township ($37,670) and Lancaster Farmland Trust ($29,429).<\/p>\n
The preserved farms are the 24-acre Colerain Township crop farm of Aaron J. and Rebecca K. Beiler; the 20-acre Little Britain Township crop farm of Marilyn Fuller, as well as a 36-acre crop and livestock farm in the township, also owned by Fuller; and a 37-acre Manor Township crop farm owned by Keith Frey Properties LLC.<\/p>\n
List of newly preserved farms across Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
Adams County \u2013 Total investment – $1,426,707; state – $21,687; county – $1,405,020<\/p>\n
Adams County Clean and Green 157-acre crop farm, Conewago Township<\/p>\n
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. #43, 93-acre crop farm, Conewago Township<\/p>\n
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc. #44, 217-acre crop farm, Conewago Township<\/p>\n
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Berks County \u2013 Total investment – $1,133,511; state – $767,159; county – $366,352<\/p>\n
Geissler Tree Farms, 152-acre crop farm, Penn Township<\/p>\n
Marvin W. and Debra L. Reinert, 70-acre crop farm, District Township<\/p>\n
Steven G. and Denise J. Rentschler, 59-acre crop farm, Jefferson Township<\/p>\n
Saddle Road, LLC, 95-acre crop farm, Greenwich Township<\/p>\n
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Butler County \u2013 Total investment – $456,000; state – $416,297; county – $39,703<\/p>\n
Meadow Grove Farm, 88-acre crop farm, Slippery Rock Township<\/p>\n
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Chester County \u2013 Total investment – $587,264; state – $33,550; county – $511,074; Cheshire Land Preservation Fund – $42,640<\/p>\n
Primitive Hall Foundation, 21-acre crop farm, West Marlborough Township<\/p>\n
Samuel and Barbara E. Townsend, 59-acre crop farm, West Nantmeal Township<\/p>\n
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Columbia County \u2013 Total investment – $195,089; state – $148,538; county – $46,551<\/p>\n
Gerald R. and Shirley D. Bodman, 155-acre beef farm, Main Township<\/p>\n
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Cumberland County \u2013 Total investment – $296,517; state – $20,242; county – $276,274<\/p>\n
Bonnie L. Asper, 32-acre crop farm, Southampton Township<\/p>\n
Mary L. Dodrill Estate, 41-acre crop farm, Penn Township<\/p>\n
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Dauphin County \u2013 Total investment – $767,023; state only<\/p>\n
Jonathan Coble, 181-acre crop and livestock farm, Conewago Township<\/p>\n
Todd Shade, 91-acre crop farm, Mifflin Township<\/p>\n
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Lancaster County \u2013 Total investment – $382,285; state – $96,055; county – $219,131; Manor Township – $37,670; Lancaster Farmland Trust – $29,429<\/p>\n
Aaron J. and Rebecca K. Beiler, 24-acre crop farm, Colerain Township<\/p>\n
Marilyn Fuller #1, 20-acre crop farm, Little Britain Township<\/p>\n
Marilyn Fuller #2, 36-acre crop and livestock farm, Little Britain Township<\/p>\n
Keith Frey Properties, LLC, 37-acre crop farm, Manor Township<\/p>\n
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Mercer County \u2013 Total investment – $76,916; state only<\/p>\n
Bruce W. and Joyce A. Woods, 79-acre crop & livestock farm, Fairview Township<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Northampton County \u2013 Total investment – $230,944; state – $17,131; county – $213,812<\/p>\n
Kevin Brent, Denise M. and Brayden W. McEwen, 31-acre crop farm, Lower Mt. Bethel Township<\/p>\n
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Perry County \u2013 Total investment – $9,348; state – $9,347; county – $1<\/p>\n
Ann Miller and Amy M. and Thomas Herd, 204-acre crop farm, Spring Township<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Union County \u2013 Total investment – $228,621; state only<\/p>\n
Joanna B. Hoover, 49-acre crop and livestock farm, East Buffalo Township<\/p>\n
Kyle Anthony and Makayla Brynne Stoltzfus, 14-acre livestock farm, Kelly Township<\/p>\n
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York County \u2013 Total investment – $1,197,059; state – $710,699; county – $486,360<\/p>\n
Gene H. Burton Jr. and Carolene C. Burton, 94-acre crop and livestock farm, Codorus Township<\/p>\n
Flinchbaugh Farms, LP #4, 138-acre crop farm, Hopewell Township<\/p>\n
George O. Phillips Jr. and Kristi Marie Snowden, 103-acre crop farm, Codorus Township<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Lancaster County farms are among 27 farms in 13 counties that will be preserved with a $6.9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2470,1835,28,30,29,96,4359],"class_list":{"0":"post-59567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-farm","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news","13":"tag-preservation","14":"tag-push"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}